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California’s waters once contained a bounty of seafood, whales, dolphins, sea turtles and other wildlife. In California, Monterey Bay and the Channel Islands were storied fishing grounds. But not anymore. Today, we have a chance to avoid the further collapse of our fisheries, and even a chance to bring back a vibrant ocean ecosystem to California.

Tell the Bush administration we need strong overfishing rules now to protect oceans and marine wildlife on all our coasts.

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In 2007, we helped pass a number of laws to limit pollution and protect our ocean. Learn more about how California can take a leading role protecting the ocean for future generations. Read more.

Letter Dear Dr. James Balsiger (Director of National Marine Fisheries Service): Every day we hear about more threats to our oceans and the animals that live there. Time is short for the fish, whales, dolphins and turtles that are threatened by overfishing, pollution, and habitat loss. Your agency is responsible for stopping powerful fishing interests from hurting our oceans. I urge you to enact strong regulations that prevent overfishing by establishing fishing limits that are well below those damaging levels. Our oceans are in such poor shape that we need to take extra precautions when setting fishing limits. I’m writing to ask you to write rules that leave enough fish, especially forage fish, in the sea for other animals to eat to keep our oceans in balance; manage the ocean like the ecosystem that it is; hold industry and fishery managers accountable when overfishing happens and these accountability rules should be modified quickly if they’re not working. Sincerely,
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